. The street railway review . t of which he is responsible. An Accurate Method for Recording the Head-way on City Lines. As a means of obtaining permanent records of the headways underwhich the city cars operate over the lines of the Terre HauteTraction & Light Co., Terre Haute, Ind., a novel and interestingmethod is used. The routes for the city lines are so laid out thaiall the cars pass a prominent street corner near the general office-,of the company. At this street corner there has been erected on apole at a convenient location, a suitable board with eight ordinarydoor-bell push buttons m
. The street railway review . t of which he is responsible. An Accurate Method for Recording the Head-way on City Lines. As a means of obtaining permanent records of the headways underwhich the city cars operate over the lines of the Terre HauteTraction & Light Co., Terre Haute, Ind., a novel and interestingmethod is used. The routes for the city lines are so laid out thaiall the cars pass a prominent street corner near the general office-,of the company. At this street corner there has been erected on apole at a convenient location, a suitable board with eight ordinarydoor-bell push buttons mounted on its face. Each of these button sis electrically connected with a watchmans time clock in the nearbyoffice of the company. The buttons are numbered and each routeof the city cars has assigned to it a number corresponding with oneof the buttons. As the cars pass this corner the motormen arerequired to deposit their transfers and tickets in a suitable boxon the pole and at the same time push the button whose number. as jii o»PERMANENT RECORD OF CAR HEADWAYS AT TERRE HAUTE. corresponds with that of the route over which their car making of the electrical contact by pushing this button causesa perforation to be recorded on the paper within the time clock atthe office. By reference to the accompanying illustration, which is a repro-duction of one of the records taken from the clock, it will be seenthat these record blanks are ruled with circles, the spaces betweenwhich are numbered to correspond with the eight car routes, andwith radial lines which mark off the hours and ten-minute divisionsof the hours. The record also shows that it was placed in theclock at noon when cars were operating on all the lines. It will beseen that the cars of each route made their last trip past the re-cording corner at about 11:15 P- m- and that no regular cars wererunning between that time and 12 oclock midnight when the nextblank was put in the recording clock. Such records shoul
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